March 25, 2012

I Smell A Rat, Or Trouble, Or Something Other Than Gasoline

I posted on the story of the 13 year old Kansas City boy set on fire by two black teens when it got some attention a few weeks ago. I believed that since the story didn't fit the "privileged whites / oppressed black" narrative sought by the Elite Media it would be buried.

I understand that news outlets employ an abundance of caution when naming names, but no suspects have been identified. Is there serious doubt as to whether (a) the victim was white, or (b) his assailants were black, or (c) he was set on fire?

OK, maybe there is some doubt. Team Root will look like geniuses if this kid was really burned in a meth lab explosion in his basement.

Several weeks have gone by and the story has disappeared, not just from the national media but from the local Kansas City news outlets. The national media I can rationalize, but the local news?

Kansas City, Missouri Police wouldn’t speak on camera about the incident on Tuesday. Though, did tell 41 Action News, that after several interviews with the boy, they don’t believe the incident needs to be investigated as a hate crime.

The boy’s family disagrees.

I don't think the cops are looking for a meth lab but I wonder whether they are looking for anyone at all. The cops won't go on camera, they don't think its a hate crime, the local outlets have dropped it - one logical explanation is that the kid's story doesn't hang together.

And a bonus baffler - the news video clearly shows the gasoline can allegedly used by the assailants still sitting next to the porch a day later. Unless the news crew is engaging in creative reenactment, what kind of police investigation is that? Surely even the Sanford PD would have wanted the gas container as evidence.

Well - maybe a thirteeen year old was playing with gas, lit himself up and lied to the cops and his parents. In that scenario, letting it slide may be best for everyone.

Perhaps somewhere in the blogosphere are people who actually know some Kansas City cops who can shed some light on this. As a proud member of the VRWC, we don't want to be Duke lacrosse/faculty dupes on this. And if I have to salute Team Root, well - I have found a place for crow in my low-carb diet before.

IF THIS DOG'S NOT BARKING MAYBE THAT DOG WON'T HUNT: Rush Limbaugh worked in Kansas City and presumably has some contacts there. Can some regular listeners tell us whether he has been pushing this story? I am coming up empty in his archives.

Comments

Now here is a conspiracy to wonder about. This 2004 article refers to Obama as Kenyan Born.

" Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations."

I cannot think of a single speech out of this President's mouth that I have agreed with, or that I consider positive for our country. Today's speech is no exception to that rule. The only thing I can trust him on is to know that he will try do damage to the country as we have known it.

TC: I don't understand why all the lefty lawyers, Katyal, Greenhouse, et al, are making all these over-the-top pronouncements as it was my understanding that this case is a slam dunk? At least that is what these same legal geniuses were writing a few weeks ago. What has caused them to start to worry? Are they actually reading the briefs of the opposition and starting to panic?

That "dim bulb" you mention has let slip an old Chicago tradition. "Sure the courts have ruled against us, that doesn't mean they've got any way to stop us from going ahead with it anyway." They've pushed their big snowball and a mere Supreme Court ruling has no physical power to stop it, in their eyes. They re-name things, shuffle some press and move onwards, in the name of "Progress", just re-directing the now "idled" cash. I've seen this carp too many times..

It must be defunded fast, if ruled against, and funds withdrawn, if issued. No money means no inertia.

Clarice, I agree it won't influence anyone. But Katyal knows better. I agree it is a stupid thing to say, but I think it's stupid because it is a blatant attempt to influence SCOTUS, and the statement is blatantly ridiculous. What makes it more amazing in my mind is that Hogan Lovells, the firm he joined after he left DOJ, has significant GOP ties as well as Dem ties (unless it has changed since I last checked).

DoT, you really do not know that Justia scrubbed portions of Minor as well as many opinions that referred to Minor? I guess I am to believe it did not happen due to your complete lack of evidence to the contrary?

I think as does Mad Jack and others tat this and the Greenhouse and Lithwick shtick are a recognition the case may well be lost and they are trying to discredit the decision if their fears come true. It is after all the President's "signature" achievement.

My fault Jim, I sometimes don't get the entire sense of the thread and, it did seem odd from you.

As to UFO's I'm both proud and ashamed to admit that I saw one, in the presence of my father and two dear friends. My dad is gone now, but my friend and I talked about it yesterday.

My question is not are there spacecraft, but why do they have nearly as many models as cars did in 1958. Hell, can't these folks settle on something that works? I did like the look of the 1958 Chevy Impala. No fins.

daddy, sorry about your Heels. They seemed to have tightened up in the last three minutes. In fairness, the loss of a point guard can't really be remedied, even though the appropriately named Mr. White, played well. At the end, Kansas simply made him shoot.

Next year. But, if McAdoo is the best player on the team, will he even stay. Rivers will be gone from Duke. Hard to keep fan loyalty. Even Cameron was not sold out.

Obama first brought his birth certificate to our attention. He wrote about it in his Dreams book. Or rather, Ayers wrote about it. Something in his birth certificate bothered him. I don't think it was where he was born. I think he was born in Hawaii.

I lean towards whispers among clerks who have been tasked to research major reversals in stare decis as being the cause of the preemptive trashing of the court. It would be a kick to find out that Kennedy had assigned clerks to preparing argument that Filburn was incorrectly decided.

As for Justia, I have no idea what they did or did not do, and I do not care. I do know that nothing hey have done or can do can alter by one scintilla the law as it is recorded and reported in the law libraries of every courtroom and courthouse in America. And I know that the passage they are alleged to have scrubbed has no effect whatsoever on Barack Obama's eligibility for office.

Possible. The story that his father left them when he was 2 is bogus. And for some reason, his grandparents and mother were upset when he came home from Occidental wanting to be Barack Hussein Obama, instead of Barry.

Clarice, I consider Earth to be the zoo of the universe. I can't explain why they just don't land and say those famous words, "Take me to your leader." Of course, Obama is no leader so they may have to wait.

Good grief, I've even taken to watching Ancient Aliens. I'll repent after a while.

I had no doubt that Obama was born in Hawaii. I now have some doubt that Obama was born in Hawaii. My doubt comes from two sources.

1.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I have supported all of his actions prior to his certificate investigation. No conservative ever portrayed Arpaio as dishonest. There is a lack of evidence that Arpaio is operating at anything less than truthful.

2.) Lord Monckton. I have supported all of his actions prior to his comments on the certificate. No conservative has ever portrayed Monckton as dishonest. There is a lack of evidence that Monckton is operating at anything less than truthful.

--If you were an intelligent being why would you want to hand around earth?--

Hey just cause they have flying saucers doesn't mean they have their own little green Kardashians, Ed Markeys and Martian Idol.
It's a virtual certainty Henry Waxman is from another world and he's anything but all all that.

TK, I can't possible know why, but if it could have no legal force, what's the point? Is it to fool the ignorant? If I'm running a conspiracy, I don't make it that easy to find evidence of it. And, you know I like a good conspiracy.

It's not impossible that Obama was born outside the USA, but it will take more than we have to prove it. Maybe there just isn't more. I think it hurts the argument to take tangents that almost certainly will not yield hard evidence. A circumstantial case will not work here.

I wonder whether Austin Rivers wants to be drafted by the Celts, whether he wants nothing to do with playing for his father, or whether he doesn't care.

Doc showed up for his games when he could make it so I assume they have a good relationship. Playing for your father on a team like the Celtics could have its downside though; Garnett never shuts his ignorant yap and the trade rumors around Rondo weren't based on his lack of ability.

Who's "we?" i strongly believe that there is no grouping of media entities that has such power.

Inasmuch as whatever was done by Justia is of absolutely zero consequence, and I have no idea why anyone would have an actual conscious desire to do what they allegedly intentionally did, I can't possibly speculate on a motive.

Do you have any idea where, along the spectrum of materials affecting and influencing lawyers' and courts' understanding of the law you might find Justia? You don't want to know....

Ignatz, Thanks for the Pearl Harbour link. That's good stuff. I think I may have seen her at the Rodeo Bar in NYC in the early 90's. My wife lived a few blocks away and we were in there several nights a week. We saw a lot of great Rockabilly bands come through there. One of the best live music venues in the country.

I enjoy picking apart Obama's sketchy narrative. There are so many inconsistencies.
Being a family for 2 years - not so.
Nameless girlfriend in Dreams.
Michelle to Bali with him or not? Who knows.
Trip to Pakistan.
All the missing documents.
I'm a "Whole-lifer".

"a poet delivered an obscenity-laced polemic that he wrote "in a fever dream, in all caps"; a former pastor played a few Mr. Rogers-style songs about how atheists are friendly; and biologist Richard Dawkins headlined. "
or thisBut those speakers who did take a more aggressive, impassioned approach ("Welcome to Rick Santorum's worst God-damn nightmare," one speaker declared) rubbed other attendees the wrong way.

He was a hard worker who earned extra money by painting houses, and washing cars and working in the concession of the Pee Wee football league on the weekends. He also baby-sat for his younger cousins, two adorable little girls ages 3 and 7, whom the family called the bunnies, and when he watched the girls he baked them cookies.

Stylistically, Grenier and Roger were opposites. Grenier gave plaques and photos with dignitaries prominent placement in his office, while Roger eschewed any evidence that he had a life outside the agency. Once, when someone gave him a cartoon sketch of himself — the kind you can buy from sidewalk vendors — he crumpled it up and threw it away, according to a former colleague, saying, “I don’t like depictions of myself.”
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From the outset, Roger seemed completely absorbed by the job — arriving for work before dawn to read operational cables from overseas and staying well into the night, if he left at all. His once-pudgy physique became almost cadaverous. Although he had quit smoking a decade or so earlier, his habit returned full strength.

Now later on in the piece, they blame him for the loss of the Khost base, but then he sent someone he trusted, Jennifer Matthews,
there, just as they scapegoated her, for
letting two of the hijackers, slip through
the nets.

Hi, Janet xxxooo
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TM, Can you ban BF's phone and/or laptop next. He has lots of names but they are all from the same phone I believe. Dianne and Anne are two of them. The imposters are pretty easy to identify.

Btw, thank you! I really got a kick out of the "JustTenHours" recommendation. The people in your basement are the finest people I have never met.

--Do you have any idea where, along the spectrum of materials affecting and influencing lawyers' and courts' understanding of the law you might find Justia?--

Even as a non lawyer, when looking up cases for research I do on some issue we're dealing with I sometimes get a Justia hit, but there are way more and way more useful sources that ordinarily come up first.

--Ignatz, Thanks for the Pearl Harbour link. That's good stuff. I think I may have seen her at the Rodeo Bar in NYC in the early 90's.--

Just to be clear, scott, which I seldom am, the original was Wanda Jackson, rockabilly legend, who did the first version in the 50s.
Pearl Harbour was/is a punk/pop chick from San Francisco who started out with the Explosions in the late 70s.
She is actually pretty cute;

Why on earth would WaPo do this? Isn't it tantamount to outing a CIA chief (as the MSM wrongly accused the WH of doing a la Plame), endangering his life? With all those details, surely he can be identified.

Out of the blue, I was thinking of Tuaregs recently and came upon this site, a call for help to the outside world from Tuaregs in northwestern Niger, being massacred for the sake of uranium. And I remembered Joe Wilson during Plamegate saying he had personal business in Niger, gold mining-related. (I distinctly remember a reference to the northern part of Niger, but will have to dig through old bookmarks to find it. Maybe in his loose-lipped interviews with Josh Marshall.)

“'I have a number of clients, and basically we help them with their sort of investments in countries like Niger,' explains Wilson. 'Niger was of some interest because it has some gold deposits coming onstream. We had some clients who were interested in gold.… We were looking to set up a gold-mine company out of London.'”

The first commercial gold mine, in the southwestern part, began production in Oct. 04 - SML (Societe des Mines du Liptako) which is a joint venture between a Moroccan company, Societe Semafo, and a Canadian company, Etruscan Resources.

Back in '05 I hadn't looked on a map to see where the uranium was. Now I see it's in the northwest, in the Tuareg area.

Another side benefit of the hunt for Ali Babas, as Rick would put it, BR, is that it destabilizes that corner of the country, so it seems 'Roger' is the real life counterpart
of Ignatius's Hoffmans, or Silva's Adrian Carter, which makes his 'outing' quite revealing, they did the same to Rodriguez and co, you're welcome Dianne

Wow, re Salafis in N and C Africa - do you mean the Tuaregs? Do you mean Plame and Wilson might have manipulated US resources, CIA trainers to benefit their own private business dealings in re uranium in Niger?

So what are the facts here. Is this a case like the Florida one, where the investigation was prematurely dropped, or more like Tawana Brawley, where the supposed victim is lying and no crime actually happened. If the white boy was actually put on fire by 2 black boys, then this is just as severe as the Florida case, and deserves the same attention. If it is bogus, then it deserves to be dropped.

I was off by a year, it just struck me, that a putatitive ally, is endangered, the Hoffman's are a CIA legacy that run through
almost of all Ignatius's work, Adrian Carter, is the diligent spymaster and counterpart to
the Mossad spy, Gabriel Allon.